Sheehey attorneys Kevin Lumpkin and Justin Brown recently won a victory in the Vermont Supreme Court in State v. Blake, successfully arguing in both the trial court and the Supreme Court on appeal that a release executed in favor of a crime victim in a civil case does not bar a criminal court from ordering a defendant to pay the victim restitution.

Mr. Lumpkin argued and won the case in the trial court on behalf of the victim and authored the Supreme Court brief, and Mr. Brown argued the case as amicus curiae before the Supreme Court.